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manlio
manlio

Reputation: 18952

Access to forward-testing statistics

I'm using the TesterStatistics() function (called from the OnDeinit() function) to export various strategy-testing statistical values:

void OnDeinit(const int /*reason*/)
{
  int h = FileOpen("results.txt", FILE_WRITE|FILE_UNICODE|FILE_TXT|FILE_COMMON);

  if (h != INVALID_HANDLE)
  {
    FileWrite(h, TesterStatistics(STAT_PROFIT));
    FileWrite(h, TesterStatistics(STAT_SHORT_TRADES));
    FileWrite(h, TesterStatistics(STAT_LONG_TRADES));
    FileWrite(h, TesterStatistics(STAT_BALANCE_DD));
    FileWrite(h, TesterStatistics(STAT_BALANCE_DDREL_PERCENT));
    FileClose(h);
  }
}

This works but seems limited to simple back-testing.

How can I export both the back-testing and forward-testing results?

Results of the forward test are displayed on the separate tab "Forward". The start date of the forward period is marked by a vertical line on the chart:

Results of the forward test

Can I access these information programmatically?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 342

Answers (1)

user3666197
user3666197

Reputation: 1

You are right in the point, MetaTrader 5 Terminal does not recognise ( and frankly speaking, no one else could either ) a difference between a doing a real-trading and doing the very same things, but just as a forward-testing.

Yet, there is a way to collect statistics

We use this in another context either, when our backtesting is not actually using the StrategyTester built in tools ( we found some strange accounting issues ( when non-major Deposit Currency was not correctly involved into S/T records in the flow of time ).

We wrote our own ReportResults() and call it from the OnDeinit() handler.

This works like a charm.

Upvotes: 2

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